This should foster any stigma against the clinically depressed. They have a right to as normal a life as they can muster.
Being a poodle, however, should be immediate grounds for euthanasia.
I’m confused. The dog bit him? The dog mauled him? It will take weeks to recovery? What the hell can a little Maltese do? BTW, my mom had a Maltese. It also went crazy. Those dogs are poorly bred or something. Dogs shouldn’t be that small anyway. It would pull its leg jumping off the couch.
But yeah, it went nuts and they had to euthanize it. Oh, the dog’s name was Gandalf. I named it. It was a bit odd seeing Gandalf (the white) lose it and start attacking its owners. Still, it was a very small dog. I think I could fend it off if necessary.
My folks have a Bichon Frise with a streak of Maltese in him, and he’s one of the sweetest, most gentle dogs I’ve ever met.
I’ve seen Yorkshire Terriers and Miniature Schnauzers lose it, though, and they’re quite frightening, even if they’re small. Much scarier than certain ill-tempered Great Danes I’ve known.
I didn’t know Great Danes came in “ill-tempered”. I’ve only seen the “sweet” and “very sweet” varieties.
I was looking at getting a dog a while back, so read up on a bunch of different breeds. One surprising thing (to me) was that, apparently Daschunds (wiener-dogs) are aggressive little monsters. The article was saying that wiener-dog attacks are underreported because attacks from little dogs generally aren’t that serious, and also that people are ashamed to admit being attacked by such a ridiculous looking thing.
Well, it was really only the one… And I have met many nice Great Danes.
I guess any dog can be good, given the right circumstances, and any dog can be a surly bastard, too.
Your continued existence attests to that!
Dogs that are “aggressive little monsters” have owners who don’t know how to handle them. End of story. If you let your dog behave aggressively towards other people and are unable or unwilling to check that behaviour then you have no business owning a dog. Some dog breeds are more likely to behave aggressively, true, but it is nothing proper handling can’t deal with.
I’d agree with the theory that attacks by small dogs are underreported though.
Yeah, alpha roll those bitches!
The problem dogs tend to be purebred. Stupid people are breeding dogs within the same line just to keep the breed pure. I remember some PBS special where they interviewed a breeder that was matching purebred dogs with their own parents. Combine that with an owner stupid enough to buy an inbred dog and you have yourself the beginnings of a tiny little vicious poodle-lookin motherfucker that can bring down a president.
Come on, he was french, I doubt there was much fight in him.
Did The Onion hack reality or something?
I’d assume that part of the reason is also that many incompetent dog owners recognise that they can’t handle (or more likely, are afraid of) bigger dogs but won’t let their incompetense get in the way of getting a small dog. Sadly, not enough, but it’s something atleast.
A poodle almost gauged out my sister’s eye (she was 3 or 4 years old at the time). He missed the eye by a hairsbreadth. The same happened to her with a Saluki when she was 10.
Luckily, she still sports both intact eyes.
Paxil, rather than Prozac would’ve probably prevented the attack.
Effexor, though, is reccomended for such a small poodle. Hopefully, dog psychologists will work this out.
People rarely put that much thought into picking a dog. They get smaller dogs because they want to keep them inside and because they are cute and won’t hurt when they jump on you.
My mother’s Maltese was a very sweet dog, until it got older. Then it lost it’s mind, literally.